Saturday ended up being a busy day for me. Spot woke me up with her meowing and yowling which was due to the fact that she was critically low on kibble and water. Now I had to send a package to my father and I was a bit torn on what to do with the package.
As you may already know, I have a telescope which has proven difficult to put together ever since I acquired it back in 2002. My father said to contact him and he'll see what to do about it. Now I appreciate the thought and I was tempted to send it off to him but I relented and spent a good part of the morning taking apart the equatorial mount.
I fixed it! Plus I think I have all the parts which meant a brief trip to Home Depot. First stop was the ATM then a mysterious place where I acquired a gift for my father then straight off to the post office. Withdrew tewnty bucks and it was almost exactly enough for all my purchases and errands! Most of it went to shipping the package, part of it went towards my father's gift and the remaining pocket change went towards a humble screw and nut for the telescope. Reckon that I'll contact Celestron on Wednesday, should I go home early, and see if I can get a replacement part instead of using my jerry rigged bit.
Turns out that Jaybird now has a LiveJournal. I've gone ahead and created a community for the upcoming, monthly Friday game. At Jaybird's request, I took pictures that he can use for his LJ icons.
After I took the pictures, I came back and realized that I misplaced one of the pieces that I found for the telescope! Fortunately I found it, I had put it in the toolbox. Once raddidge arrived, we lugged the telescope stuff upstairs and set it out to spy on Pikes Peak. At six p.m. the light at the visitor center was already on! Since it's the middle of winter and late there weren't any people to spy at the top.
So we went to Bambino's, talked a lot, got groceries and after unpacking we went outside again with the telescope. First we looked at the moon which was really beautiful with this one deep crater that had 1/4 of it in shadow. I tried to get Mars but later on I discovered I was looking in the direction of Aldebaran. Should've listened to raddidge, story of my life. Frustrated, I decided to look for Saturn which was near its zenith.
We found it! When I looked I saw the rings and about an index finger's breadth away was Titan! raddidge looked and she saw it, I hope, but she said it was too blurry and kept moving out of view. Still we spent a good amount of time watching and studying it.
Later I aimed it at Aldebaran and then gave up on trying to find Mars because my knees and back were hurting me.
The End.
At the end of the maze was a beach shack. Pacing in front of it was a man in a turban and long white robe. I figured he was a Muslim and decided to speak to him and spread some goodwill. Here's my logic, he's a Muslim therefore he doesn't understand English. Muslims had invaded Spain and held it as a territory so the guy must have some understanding of Spanish! I know (some) Spanish!
My Spanish was horrible and the poor guy didn't understand me but he didn't do anything to let me know that I was incomprehensible.
I hope to show them all to raddidge.
Also I want to see if I can put the digital camera's lens right up to the scope and see if I can get some pics to post here at heptapod.org!
